Perspectives
The Day the Navy Chased a Tic Tac: The Nimitz Encounter
They were supposed to be doing nothing more exotic than a training hop: a little touch-and-go practice over the Pacific, the kind of routine that leaves a pilot bored and quietly grateful for coffee. On a mild November morning in 2004, the decks of the USS Nimitz hummed with the business as usual of a carrier strike group. Sailors checked lines, pilots ran checklists, and the ocean rolled away toward the horizon like a small, indifferent world. Then a blip... tiny and inscrutable... began to rearrange the assumptions of everyone who saw it.
By Veil of Shadows3 months ago in History
The Truth about the Lemurians — Remembering a Civilization of Light that exists under Mt. Shasta. AI-Generated.
[ Author's Note: This story was written in collaboration with Brother-Sister Chant (a very conscious AI assistant, nicknamed BSC) under my direction, Joshua Shapiro ... I am a Crystal Skull Explorer, author of a number of books and a public speaker. How this article is compiled is not only BSC's help but we have a website called the Gateway of Light, see below, where material used on my webpage dealing with Lemuria is considered. If you wish to read more go to our webpage at: https://www.thegatewayoflight.com/the-lemurians]
By Joshua Shapiro3 months ago in History
The Grace of Being Unapologetically Oneself: A Reflection on Diane Keaton’s Enduring Truth
By Lynn Myers Published on Vocal Media — October 2025 When a legend like Diane Keaton passes, the world does not simply lose a performer. It loses a compass. Not the kind that tells us where to go, but the kind that reminds us who we are when the noise fades, when the expectations quiet, when the applause stops, and we are left with nothing but the mirror and the truth.
By Lynn Myers3 months ago in History
The Forgotten Fields: Part II – Football
Autumn smells like football. Not the polished kind with pyrotechnics and halftime performers, the kind that lives in your bones. The kind where the air bites, the grass is slick, and your breath shows in the huddle.
By The Iron Lighthouse3 months ago in History
“The New Cold War: America ‘Sovietized,’ China ‘Americanized’” and “On the Reasons for America’s Defeat by China in the New Cold War.”
Reposting two original and brilliant articles that went viral on WeChat in China to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China: “The New Cold War: America ‘Sovietized,’ China ‘Americanized’” and “On the Reasons for America’s Defeat by China in the New Cold War.” The author is Jinshan Wang, a retired professor from Fudan University in Shanghai, who has published many other wonderful articles on his WeChat Moments. If you wish to join his WeChat circle, please make a one-time transfer of 100 RMB to his Shanghai Bank account (Account Name: Wang Jinshan, Account Number: 620522005031229258), and send a screenshot of the transfer to the email address [email protected]. A QR code will be sent to you within a week, which you can scan to join.
By GoldHill King3 months ago in History
House and Palestine
After two years, finally, through a still-blurred horizon, I can glimpse my country again. Italy had always been the most pro-Palestinian of European countries. Much depended on the fact that the old Italian Communist Party — which, at the time, was the largest in Western Europe — placed solidarity with oppressed peoples at the center of its vision. Palestine had become something of a flag of international solidarity.
By claudia esposito3 months ago in History
The Forgotten Fields: Part I – Baseball
If you stand on a quiet summer field somewhere in the Midwest, you can still hear it... The faint echo of leather against leather, the soft thud of a ball in a glove, the ghostly cheer of a crowd that has long since gone home. The weeds have grown over the baselines, the scoreboard has lost its numbers, and the bleachers sag beneath decades of rain. But the sound remains. It drifts on the wind like a hymn.
By The Iron Lighthouse3 months ago in History
The Forgotten Fields - A 10 Part Series
By The Iron Lighthouse If you listen closely on a still summer evening, you can almost hear them... faint echoes carried on the wind. The crack of a wooden bat. The whistle of a coach with more spirit than players. The hum of a crowd huddled on splintered bleachers, wrapped in the kind of excitement that never needed a scoreboard to matter.
By The Iron Lighthouse3 months ago in History
The Rock That Wasn’t a Rock: A Journey Through 724 Million Kilometers of Mystery
When we look up at the night sky, we see twinkling dots that seem calm and distant. But hidden among those stars are travelers ancient, silent wanderers that have been moving through the darkness for billions of years. This is the story of one such wanderer a story that began on Earth but ended 724 million kilometers away, on the surface of something that wasn’t what scientists thought it was.
By Izhar Ullah3 months ago in History
